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    B. F. Skinner

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    Psychologist”; in which he enumerates various cognitive concepts and mechanisms before providing a behavioral explanation of the phenomena. To illustrate‚ Skinner introduces the subject of abstraction‚ which is considered the cognitive process of expanding old concepts to accommodate new ones (abstraction‚ 2015). As an example he provides a simple experiment in which a hungry pigeon pecks a color-labeled panel based off the color of a miscellaneous object presented to it. While the cognitive approach

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    1  of 25 You are now either taking a test or not taking a test. This statement is an example of appropriate polarization. True False Question 2  of 25 Messages communicate values and attitudes. True False Question 3  of 25 Extensional orientation is the tendency to stretch meanings beyond their original intents. True False Question 4  of 25 Indirectness indicates powerlessness. True False Question 5  of 25 There is nothing wrong with making inferential statements. True False Question

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    Perception in Art

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    Perception Essay After viewing the power point presentation and the videos provided‚ I learned about the relationship between representation and abstraction in art‚ context within art‚ contemporary art and finally about visual perception. Representation and abstraction was discussed in the video. In the discussion‚ representational art was compared to a lie or a falsehood. In the video‚ the commentators compared a representation painted by John Everett Millais called “Ophelia” (1851) and an abstract

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    The Kiss

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    were discovered and killed by the woman’s husband. I believe that the sculpture The Kiss by Brancusi is quite different from the sculpture by Rodin with the same name. These two artists had quite a different style. Brancusi showed modernism and abstraction. While Rodin also portrayed modernism‚ he used realism and a representational approach. They are both sculptures containing a couple kissing but have a

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    reverse process- rebuilding breaches. A flow duration curve was produced and it was established that the Mpenjati estuary mouth is opened with the flow duration of 0.26 m3/s. Sewage works found to play a greater influence on flow rate as opposed to abstractions for irrigation. The estuary was open for sixty five percent of the time between the periods 2000 to 2006. Introduction A general understanding of an estuary is a region through which a river discharges into a sea and in a Southern African context

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    the art world as it shaped the ideas‚ attitudes and practices of artists by encouraging freedom of expression in their practice. This was highly influenced by the invention of the camera which saw the demise of realist painting and interest in abstraction for painters and other artists. They wanted to explore the limits of

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    De Stijl

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    De Stijl‚ ‘The Style’. De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement founded 1917 in Amsterdam by artists Piet Mondrian‚ Theo Van Doesburg and architect Gerrit Reitveld. You could say this movement demonstrates simplicity and abstraction. The new art movement was inexpensive and was seen to express visual harmony. The idea of visual harmony emerged greatly from the response to the tragedy of World War and was dedicated to reconstruct a brave new world out of the ruins of the old. De Stijl was made up of

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    DEFINING OOP AND HOW IT CAME INTO BEING. OOP which fully means Object Oriented Programming. It is a programming paradigm that uses object consisting of data fields and methods together with their interaction to design applications and computer programs. The design concentrate on objects upon which functions or procedure itself. Object oriented programming is a very reliable method of programming because the re-usability of code and self contained nature of the program component. Object oriented

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    Modernism

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    Explain how significant events in the world have influenced the practice of artists during the Modernism period. Refer to specific artworks and/or art movements to support your answer. Modernism refers to the modernist movement in the arts which originated in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modern artists experimented with new ideas about the nature of materials and purposes of art. Artist’s practice reflects the changing of lifestyles and changes in the world. An artist’s

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    Afton Muir 10-20-06 Abstract Expressionism The abstract expressionist movement shook the art world. It began in the early 1940’s and shifted the world’s attention to New York City‚ where artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko were shattering publicly held notions of what was considered art. It’s authentic period of vibrancy and newness lasted from the early 1940’s to the mid 1950’s. The social and political context in which the abstract expressionist movement came about was highly

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